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Excerpt: Alchemists Academy by Kailin Gow

Today I have an excerpt from Alchemists Academy by Kailin Gow! This excerpt is from Elemental Explosions, the second book in the series.

“What are we doing out here?”

“Trying to help you reach your potential. Weren’t you listening?”

“Um…” Wirt couldn’t help a glance down at the distant ground. “How exactly do we do that?”

“Like this.” Ms. Burns didn’t push him hard. But then, she didn’t have to. Wirt wheeled his arms for a moment in an effort to keep his balance, and then fell, unable to keep from screaming as the air rushed past him. This wasn’t the safety of the transport tubes. This was outside the tree, where falling meant making an unpleasant dent in the ground below, not to mention being spread over more of it than Wirt really wanted.

The only glimmer of hope came when Ms. Burns appeared across from him, falling into view having obviously stepped off the branch too. She didn’t seem concerned by the prospect of imminent death.

“Do something,” Wirt urged.

“You do something,” Ms. Burns shot back.

“What can I do?”

“Think of something. What do you wish to happen?”

Wirt didn’t know what Ms. Burns meant but at that moment he was willing to try almost anything. Already, the ground was approaching far too fast, rushing up to meet them in a way that suggested Wirt didn’t have time to think.

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About the book:

What do you learn here…at the Academy? Wirt asks. Magic? The responsibility to use your powers responsibly? Uh…something like that, his roommate Spencer said. More like how to rule worlds. Wirt, is used to being shuffled from foster home to foster home, adopting a devil-may-care attitude toward the world along the way. Now he’s in a school he can’t escape, learning to develop his latent magical abilities, for what use, he doesn’t know…to save his world or to destroy it…